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Portal 2 Puzzle Creator reaches open Beta

The Portal 2 puzzle creator will let players make their own test chambers without having to dive into Valve’s complex level creation tools. We got a chance to catch up with Chet Faliszeck and Erik Johnson at GDC for a chat about ...

12 years ago

Mass Effect 3 petition raises $40k in one day

A petition to change the endings to Mass Effect 3 has raised $40K in just one day. The petition, dubbed Retake Mass Effect, is a Child's Play donation drive which hopes to bring positive attention to the situation. "We would ...

12 years ago

New Medal of Honor is improving Frostbite 2

Following in the footsteps of last year's Battlefield 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter is another stunning looking Frostbite 2-powered shooter. EA senior creative director Richard Farrelly in an interview, said how developer Danger ...

12 years ago

Blizzard announces Starcraft 2 1.5 Update

Blizzard has announced details for an upcoming major update for StarCraft 2. Update 1.5 "will be our most feature-laden patch to date", says game director Dustin Browder, who adds that the update will lay the foundations for the ...

12 years ago

Microsoft covers tracks about next Xbox

Microsoft's inadvertently dropped the latest indication that it's ramping up development of a successor to the Xbox 360. A pair of job ads - now removed from Microsoft.com - mentioned the "next-generation" of Xbox, just a few ...

12 years ago

Square Enix trademarks ‘Mini Ninjas: Hiro’s Adventure’

Square Enix has trademarked the name Mini Ninjas: Hiro's Adventure and registered related website domains such as minininjahirosadventure.com. Siliconera spotted them, but is none the wiser about what they refer to. Mini ...

12 years ago

Forza Dev reportedly hiring for ‘Next-Gen Games’

Forza developer Turn 10 is hiring for its "Next Generation of games". The Microsoft owned studio is after a cinematics art director. The job, spotted by Superannuation, involves "defining and driving the cinematics vision and ...

12 years ago

Wasteland 2 Kickstarter reaches $900k in 48 hours

The Wasteland 2 Kickstarter drive has shot past its $900,000 goal in just 48 hours - leading creator Brian Fargo to declare this the "best week of my life!" Fargo's inXile Entertainment now has $925,142 in the coffers ...

12 years ago

Risen 2: Dark Waters coming late April for PC

Deep Silver today announced release dates for the pirate RPG Risen 2: Dark Waters. Risen 2: Dark Waters will be available on April 27, 2012 for Windows PC, on May 22, 2012 in the USA and Canada and on May 25, 2012 in European ...

12 years ago

Diablo 3 release date revealed

Right from Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. comes the announcement of Diablo III's release date. The critically acclaimed action role-playing game series' next chapter will see the light of day on May 15. Players across the world ...

12 years ago

Mozilla to counter “Update Fatigue” with Silent Updates

Mozilla's Firefox has been the joke of 2011 when it comes to browsers, with its version changing almost every month and due to the way Firefox is updated that has meant users have had to make re-installs every couple of months to ...

12 years ago

Phillips introduce the Blade 2 IPS monitor

Phillips today unveiled the Philips Blade 2 monitor that incorporates a stylish ultra-slim design with the latest IPS (In-Plane Switching) technology. With a depth of just 12.5 mm, the Philips Blade 2 239C4QHSB monitor is one of the ...

12 years ago

PSN Security Cheif talks about new security measures

The man entrusted with ensuring the ongoing safety of PlayStation Network following last year's devastating security breach has outlined his basic strategy for keeping the system safe. Speaking in an interview with SC ...

12 years ago

Powercolor introduce HD 7770 PCS+ edition

Powercolor  today announces a new entry into the HD7700 series: the PCS+ HD7770 GHz Edition. Coming with factory overclocked settings, the PCS+ HD7770 delivers betterout-of-box gaming performance, with a core speed at 1150 MHz and ...

12 years ago

EA thinking about Subscription based content

EA is considering adopting a subscription model for future Battlefield titles, according to the publisher's games chief Patrick Soderlund. "I think it's fair to say that we're looking at that. Like all other companies, we're ...

12 years ago

Raidmax debut Agusta Gaming case

[gallery link="file" orderby="title"] Raidmax has announced a "Gundam themed" chassis with an unique HDD storage design. Designed for ATX and m-ATX motherboards, the Agusta is aimed at gamers seeking an aesthetically striking ...

12 years ago

28nm GT 640M gets benchmarked

Nvidia's 28nm developments will be arriving on the notebook soon as well as for the desktop. The GT 640M is going to be a brand new 28nm notebook GPU, coming in as a Direct X 11.1 replacement for the older Direct X 11 GT 540.  The GT ...

12 years ago

Eurocom Ships the World’s Most Powerful 3D On-the-Go 12 lbs Notebook

The EUROCOM Panther 4.0 is available as a 3D enabled system or a non 3D system.  Supporting 3D technology provides users with an immersive 3D experience in games, movies, and any content with built in depth. "The Panther 4.0 3D ...

12 years ago

Deal of the Day – OCZ Technology 128GB Petrol SSD

If you're building a new system, or even just looking to upgrade your current rig, SSD hard drives offer an excellent way to boost the performance of almost any system, with their lightening quick read and write times, you'll ...

12 years ago

Sega joins list of Origin partnerships

Sega has joined the fast-growing list of publishers that will offer their PC games through EA's Origin service. Sega has kicked off the partnership with Total War Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai, which is available to pre-order ...

12 years ago

MSI announce 7 series motherboards

MSI today announced motherboards based on Intel's Z77/H77/B75 series chipsets, with support for the new generation of 22 nm Ivy Bridge CPUs featuring PCI Express Gen3 specification. The all-new Military Class III products utilizes ...

12 years ago

Double Fine Kickstarter reaches 3.3 Million

Double Fine Kickstarter reaches 3.3 Million The total amount donated to help Double Fine fund a classic adventure title reached $3,336,371. The Kickstarter ended late yesterday and saw just over 87,000 backers for the project. Double ...

12 years ago

Mass Effect 3 Datapad now available for iOS

Mass Effect 3 has been out for a week now, and if you're not one of those gamers freaking out about the game's ending, you might be interested in refreshing yourself on that universe's lore even while you're not playing. EA has you ...

12 years ago

Playstation Store now available on the Sony Xperia S

The PlayStation Store has arrived on the new Sony Xperia S smartphone. This is part of the PlayStation Certified initiative, to sell old PlayStation 1 games on Android phones. From the Store, Xperia S owners can buy ...

12 years ago

Monster World XBLA collection seen

Monster World XBLA collection seen It looks like Sega's classic Monster World platforming series is set for a return next month via an Xbox Live Arcade collection. A listing for Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World, spotted by a ...

12 years ago

Obsidian fire staff, cancel next-gen project

RPG specialist Obsidian Entertainment has reportedly made a number of staff redundant and canceled work on an unannounced next-gen project. According to a Joystiq source, "20-30" employees "from all disciplines" have been ...

12 years ago

iPlayer suspected to launch on Xbox Live next week

The BBC iPlayer launches on Xbox Live next week, according to a report. The BBC iPlayer catch-up service app will be available to download from Xbox Live after both companies sorted out the thorny issue of charging for the ...

12 years ago

Marvell reveals its third-generation of SATA 6Gbps SSD controller

Marvell has announced the mass deployment of the Marvell 88SS9187 SATA controller featuring the new high performance embedded processor technology. The 88SS9187 features a 6Gbps SATA Revision 3.1 compliant host interface optimized ...

12 years ago

Ivy Bridge i7 3770K reaches 6.2GHz and breaks PiFast World Record

[gallery link="file" orderby="title"] The NDA for Ivy Bridge CPUs doesn't expire until some time in late April but that hasn't stopped OC_Windforce from overclocking the life out of an i7 3770K and then posting the results for the ...

12 years ago

AMD working on a new A4-3420 Socket FM1 APU

AMD is currently working on a new launch, a new accelerated processing unit in the FM1 package. The A4-3420 is set to be a value model for all those on a tight budget, or simply those without the need for extreme ...

12 years ago

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